The Trump ABC interview

[yankees60]

What I just put on Facebook:

Watched this with someone last night.
We each made comments to one another while watching. We both agreed on our reactions to all we were hearing.
The POSITIVE:
1. It's always struck me during all these times Trump speaks to anyone (here, his free interactions with the press) that he is an engaged listener. For the most part he really does listen to the questioner before answering a question.
2. He is a charmer. Can see why so many are attracted to him.
3. In comparison to his predecessor ... he is all there and is a quick thinker. Exudes a lot of energy.
4. There was one question where he properly called out the interviewer for making an asserted statement with no basis and asked him why he was not, instead, asking a question.
I was not taking notes so this is all I remember about the POSITIVE.
The NEGATIVE
1. Constant, constant, unending lying. Either he knows he is or does not know. If it is actually the latter .. that is worse than the former.
2. He behaves and talks like an 8th grader! That is not a case of plain speaking. It's a case of someone with arrested intellectual development.
3. His refusing to let go of the MS 13 tattoo on the fingers of the person sent to El Salvador by mistake and whether it was real or photoshopped was entertaining on one level. But quite sad for the country to have a president so obsessed with such a minor item (the tattoo, not what ultimately happens to this person).
4. An inability to be consistent from one statement to the next. Another case of arrested intellectual development.
5. His outright rudeness. Towards the interviewer. Towards Canada. Towards anyone who disagrees with him in any way! Just continues to be a national embarrassment to the rest of the world.
Again. I was not taking notes. This list would have also been longer if I had been.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBwCUPttprw

FULL INTERVIEW | President Trump the First 100 Days: The Interview in the Oval Office

[glennds]

FWIW, today's Meet the Press interview with Kristen Welker was far better than the ABC interview. Her questions were very focused and pointed. I think Kristen is twice the interviewer that Terry Moran is.

Some of Trump's answers were stunning, even for him.

He applied a variation of the "seriously vs. literally" crane kick, to the economy.
When asked at what point will it become the Trump economy and no longer Biden's fault he said anything to do with the economy that is bad is attributable to Biden, and anything about the economy that is positive is attributable to Trump. Full stop.

But I'll take the little bonuses. Thank God he definitively said he has no intention of firing Jerome Powell. If that happened I worry it would just collapse the markets, especially the debt markets.

[dualstow]

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Thank God he definitively said he has no intention of firing Jerome Powell. If that happened I worry it would just collapse the markets, especially the debt markets.

HIs advisors finally got through to him.

[boglerdude]

or his donors. His base wanting a third term is as grotesque as when they threw DeSantis under the bus.

tempts me to give up and join the Socialists as a closeted libertarian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzN1A-lu5vw